AJ5205 Interpreting Skills

Faculty of Education
Spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
0/1/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
In-person direct teaching
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Martin Němec, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Olga Dontcheva-Navrátilová, Ph.D.
Department of English Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Jana Popelková
Supplier department: Department of English Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Prerequisites
As the seminar is practically oriented, it is necessary that students can easily understand English speakers and will be ready to react and try the job of an interpreter.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 20 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/20, only registered: 0/20, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/20
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Course objectives
Interpreting seminar is practically oriented and the task is to learn and try to interpret in real life situations.
At the end of this course, the students should have the ability to self study the techniques necessary for the interpreting.
Main objectives can be summarized as follows:
to try consecutive techniques
to try simultaneous techniques
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course, the students will be able:
manage the consecutive interpreting techniques,
manage simultaneous interpreting techniques.
Syllabus
  • 1) Basics of interpreting
  • 2) How to make it?
  • 3) Preparations, study of vocabulary
  • 4) Journalism - interpreting media
  • 5) Technical Presentation - how to interpret
  • 7) Consecutive skills
  • 8) Simultaneous skills
Literature
  • GILLIES, Andrew. Note-taking for consecutive interpreting : a short course. Manchester: St. Jerome Publishing, 2005, 239 s. ISBN 1900650827. info
  • PÖCHHACKER, Franz. Introducing interpreting studies. 1st publ. London: Routledge, 2004, xii, 252. ISBN 0415268877. info
  • Teaching translation and interpreting : training, talent and experience. Edited by Cay Dollerup - Anne Loddegaard. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1992, vii, 343. ISBN 1556194536. info
  • ČEŇKOVÁ, Ivana. Teoretické aspekty simultánního tlumočení : na materiálu rusko-českém a česko-ruském. Praha: Univerzita Karlova, 1988. info
  • Problémy překladu a tlumočení : teorie - výuka - praxe. Edited by Milan Hrala - Ladislav Zadražil. Praha: Univerzita Karlova, 1981. info
Teaching methods
class practice
Assessment methods
Methods:
practical exercise
Credit Requirements:
- attendance
- practising interpreting skills
- final interpreting task - 4 minutes of simultaneous interpreting
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: in blocks.
Note related to how often the course is taught: dopolední blok 8.30-13.30, sobota 2. března a sobota 11. května 2024.
General note: Předmět bude realizován, pokud se přihlásí alespoň 15 studentů.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 12 hodin ve 2 blocích.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2017, Spring 2018, Autumn 2018, Spring 2019, Autumn 2019, Spring 2020, autumn 2020, Spring 2021, Autumn 2021, Spring 2022, Autumn 2022, Spring 2023, Autumn 2023, Spring 2024, Autumn 2024.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2025, recent)
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